KARL MAYER Group
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| Industry | Textile machinery building |
| Founded 📆 | 1937 in Obertshausen, Germany |
| Founder 👔 | Karl Mayer |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Obertshausen, Hesse , Germany |
Number of locations | 12 locations worldwide |
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| Products 📟 | Machines for Digital Solutions |
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Number of employees | 2300 (2020) |
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The KARL MAYER Group is a German company in the textile machinery industry. It manufactures machines for the areas of warp knitting, technical textiles and warp preparation for weaving, and offers digital solutions under the KM.ON brand. In addition to its headquarters in Germany, it has branches in China, Japan, India, Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland and the USA.
History
The company was set up by Karl Mayer in Obertshausen in 1937, initially as a mechanical workshop. Later this was followed by the specialization in the manufacture of warp knitting machines with the variants tricot machines and Raschel machines. The first machine was delivered in 1948. In 1950, the company extended its portfolio by the production of warp preparation units for warp knitting.[1]
Up to the year 1990, the company manufactured worldwide 75,000 textile machines for warp knitting and warp preparation. This represented two thirds of the production machines made worldwide for these areas at that time. 1991 started the production of warp preparation units for weaving.[1]
In the year 2007, the KARL MAYER Group generated a worldwide turnover of 400 million euros with approx. 2,550 employees.[2] 2008 was the year in which the enterprise took over the Weaving Warp Preparation Division from Benninger AG in Uzwil (Switzerland) with 110 employees.[3][4] In 2010 KARL MAYER was world market leader with a market share of about 76%, with regard to the number and value of the warp knitting machines and warp preparation units sold.[5] The same year marked the delivery of the 100,000th machine.[6][7] Roughly 90% of the turnover was achieved with export business. The most important sales markets included not only Western Europe but especially Asia, South America and the Middle East.
In 2014 KARL MAYER took over LIBA Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Naila with 350 employees. This company also produced warp knitting and warping machines.[8][9] In 2017 KARL MAYER founded KM.ON GmbH as a software start-up intended for the development of digital solutions.[10][11] In February 2020, KARL MAYER signed an agreement to acquire the STOLL Group.[12][13]
Business Units
Today, the company operates in five Business Units:[14]
Warp Knitting with the product groups lace, tricot, Raschel and double-needle-bar Raschel machines for the manufacture of high-quality rigid and elastic lace, functional lingerie and apparel fabrics, warp-knitted spacer fabrics, seamless articles, plush fabrics, curtains, terry textiles and semi-technical products; machines for the production of special textiles, e.g. for medical applications; warping machines for warp knitting
Warp Preparation with warp preparation machines for weaving, such as sizing machines and assembling machines, beaming and warp beaming machines, sectional warpers, warp sampling machines, denim dyeing units and creels
Technical Textiles with a focus on machines for the production of high-strength textiles or open grid structures, mainly for the fiber reinforcement of composites, in addition weft warp knitting machines and composite machines, fiber spreading units as well as spreading and impregnating equipment for the continuous manufacture of fiber-reinforced thermoplastic tapes
KM.ON with a digital solutions portfolio to support the customers in selected areas, and an access via a conventional industrial PC in combination with an appropriate computer program
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Preisgekrönte Kettvorbereitungstechnik made by KARL MAYER". www.lifepr.de (in German). 2002–2020. Retrieved 2020-05-20. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "KARL MAYER Textilmaschinenfabrik GmbH". Federal Gazette. Retrieved 2020-05-20. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Karl Mayer takes over Benninger". www.innovationintextiles.com. Retrieved 2020-05-20. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Singh, Mukesh Kumar (2014-07-14). Industrial Practices in Weaving Preparatory. Woodhead Publishing India PVT. Limited. p. 227. ISBN 978-93-80308-51-7. Search this book on
- ↑ Lexikon der deutschen Weltmarktführer : Die Königsklasse deutscher Unternehmen in Wort und Bild. Langenscheidt, Florian; Venohr, Bernd (Ed.) (1. Aufl ed.). Offenbach am Main: GABAL. 2010. ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2. OCLC 698533723. Search this book on
- ↑ OP Online (2010-02-20). "Optimismus bei Karl Mayer". https://www.op-online.de/region/obertshausen/optimismus-karl-mayer-637870.html (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2020-05-20. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); External link in|website=(help) - ↑ Davis, Haydn. "Karl Mayer celebrates 75 years". Knitting Trade Journal. Retrieved 2020-05-28. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Merger of KARL MAYER and LIBA on track". Kettenwirk-Praxis. 01/2014: 39.
- ↑ "Karl Mayer and LIBA merger on track". www.knittingindustry.com. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
- ↑ "An exhibition full of future opportunities". Kettenwirk-Praxis. 03/2018: 2–5.
- ↑ Davis, Haydn. "Karl Mayer launches new digital brand for the warp knitting market". Knitting Trade Journal. Retrieved 2020-05-28. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "KARL MAYER kauft STOLL". Gesamtmasche (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-24. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Apparel Resources (2020-03-02). "Karl Mayer acquires Stoll, expands into flat knitting segment | Manufacturing Tech News Germany". www.apparelresources.com. Retrieved 2020-05-28. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Corporate structure of KARL MAYER". www.karlmayer.com. Retrieved 2020-05-20. Unknown parameter
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